ESP8266 Community Forum

I'm just working on a small project where ESP8266 is the connection to internet.
I love the idea to build firmware by myself using cloud support, this is amazing. Thanks a lot for offering this option.
My 1st problem is to select best branch.
Reading through this forum, I see people talking about 0.96, 1.11, and a lot of other stuff.
To be honest, I'm more confused the more I read.
Is there any recommendation, guideline, list of available firmware ?
My knowledge for compiling my own version is restricted to the cloud builder from frightanic.com

regards
Jürgen

You are posting in the NodeMCU forum - I take it you want to use NodeMCU, rather than one of the 'AT' firmwares?

And of course you could develop in C++ using the Arduino IDE and not have to worry about the version of firmware at all.

Thanks for your feedback, seems my question was misleading.
I already use NodeMCU in version nodemcu_integer_0.9.6-dev_20150406
On github (https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware) are 3 branches all based on SDK0.9.6.
In this forum was a short discussion about using SDK1.x to compile NodeMCU for Esp8266.
What I would like to get is something like a guideline to find best/most_actual/less_problematic version of NodeMCU for ESP8266. If it is the one I use already, thats fine, if I should download fom somewhere else fine too.

Moin,

if it works for you, keep it. If you need newer stuff you may use a newer one either by building your own
or use Marcels build service.

Thinks are in the flow with ups and downs regarding stability.

Cal