Tutorials? What tutorials?

I got my BC24 today and was quite excited about it. The time may show that I'm typing this at 3:45am here in Dallas.

I am frustrated. As seems so often the case with SwitchDoc products, they are technologically pretty cool. But, they also have non-tutorial, tutorials. They are nothing like the Adafruit tutorials: Nothing at all. And, for you to get your products in people's hands and keep current purchasers returning, they need to be made for newbies. Or, at lease motivated newbies. 

How are people who are starting out in their journey supposed to know what provisioning refers to, make any sense of the BC24 connection tools "IOT_Espressif or another application ESP8266 SmartConfig"? Those apps make no sense whatsoever, feature no written instructions. The apps are crap. 

The WPS setup option doesn't say anything about what buttons to push, when, and really nothing about the sequence to set this up. This is what I'm asking for: a step-by-step explanation of the details an inexperienced person can expect. Same for the AP method. 

How do you get to that point? Right now, I have 5 red lights flashing. I have no idea what those three red lights mean. Indeed, aside from an explanation of the istory of connecting via WPS, and the amazing things this board really can do, there's no guidance. 

I can't even tell how to upload the sketches with my computer using USB (given the failure of every one of the 3 really cool wireless methods). If you hadn't prepragrammed the BC24 with something, I would really be angry. 

Here's the thing: I think you have really cool stuff. Perhaps there's enough business coming in to only support people who are smart enough and generous enough to make these products work without real tutorials. But, those less skilled can't succeed in the absence of screenshots, pictures of physical connections in various resolutions (not low-quality pictures linking to Pinterest), Step 1 do this, step 2 do that. I have no idea when to push the buttons or switches nor what they mean (except the Mode one does have some stuff that it deals with the Mode, though I'm still not clear on what that means).

So, all I have is a pretty cool display going round and round. At this point, I don't know how to use it, connect to it, or anything else other than how to plug it in. That's not enough anymore. Unless there's a serious effort to make tutorials similar to the Adafruit tutorials, I'm done, I think, buying or supporting SwitchDoc products or Kickstarters. I say I think because the products are always tantalizing. And, when there are glitches you are really, really good at helping out. But, as far as setting all this up, SwitchDoc doesn't. I will just have to try to remind myself that it will be too frustrating to mess with it. Please, please hire someone or pay for tutorials by the piece. Just slow down the train of products until you make usable tutorials appropriate to motivated newbies. As it stands, these products aren't even for them.If a newbie can't connect in two hours with the provided instructions, the instructions aren't adequate. Oh, and please don't confuse instructions with linking people to other tutorials, articles on SmartConfig, app source code, etc. 

I really want SwitchDoc to succeed. But, I also want to enjoy these projects and feel like I can succeed in setup in an hour or so. It might be helpful when you do Kickstarters to say who your audience is and the expected skill level to be successful and find the project pleasant.