Turn the M5Stack Dial into a Kitchen Timer with ESPHome

A kitchen timer is a solved interface. Twist a knob, it starts ticking, it rings when it is done. Every attempt to improve on that with touchscreens and apps has mostly made it worse. The M5Stack Dial is that exact interface with an ESP32-S3 inside: a rotary knob with real detents that also clicks like a button, a 1.28" round touchscreen in the middle, and a buzzer. So this post builds the obvious…