Half a million LG electric stoves sold in the past decade have been recalled. The knobs can easily be turned on by accident.
The elimination of the iDrive knob was in the works already, seeing as certain BMW models like the X2 running iDrive 9 already ditched it for touchscreen-only control—others, such as the X3 ...
Just drill a hole through the PCB behind the knob’s potentiometer ... A simple web page running on the ESP8266 even allows him to control volume over the network with his smartphone.