Let's try to improve your chances of seeing something different. Other than a plain, blank, red disk:
There's not much happening on the disk
at the moment but that doesn't mean there is nothing at all to see:
First step: Check Gong Ha [
http://halpha.nso.edu/] website for clues as to where the main prominences [bonfires] lie on the limb.
Click on any of the sun's H-alpha images for an enlargement.
Now remember the position[s] of the larger prominences like the hours of a clock dial.
Like [say] a prom at 2 o'clock and another at 10 o'clock.
Cover your head with something dark to improve the contrast of your view through the telescope.
It doesn't matter what it is as long as it's not slippery.
A dark coloured towel won't blow away in a breeze and drapes nicely to exclude light.
They are also cheaper than buying a special sunshade cloth.
Now, is the limb [edge of sun's visible disk] sharp in your view through the telescope?
If not, make it as sharp as you can with the focusing knob. Leave the etalon tuning band alone for the moment.
Now look
really hard at the clock dial times where you saw some activity on the sun's limb on Gong Ha on their website.
Turn the knurled, etalon tuning band
very, very slowly while staring at the sun's disk.
Slowly turn the etalon band from one end of its range to the other.
Impatience won't help and you are only cheating yourself. You paid good money for your solar telescope. You want it to earn its keep!
Hopefully you will find an etalon band setting where you can begin to detect slight fuzziness projecting from the limb.
This could be your very first prominence!
If Gong Ha shows clear or large sunspots then you can remember the hours on the clock dial to more quickly find it in your view of the sun.
Remember "9 o'clock and half way towards the centre." That sort of thing.
It isn't going to be easy to see very small details on the sun without a lot of practice.
That just means staring hard at your solar telescope's view of the sun. One day the surface texture may just pop into view.
That's how it worked for me despite decades of observing in white light.
You eye just isn't used to seeing things in a fairly dark, deep red colour. So your vision needs to be exercised and trained like a flabby muscle.
My first moment of real excitement was when the sun's disk suddenly turned into burning "coals" with brighter "cracks" in between.
If all this sounds too patronizing then you are denying yourself full value for your investment in solar equipment.
The experts have usually been at it so long they forget which questions really matter.