Tools and Information on the "Beike" Allwinner V3/V3S action cameras. A lot of this applies to other Allwinner V3/V3S action cameras, however it's only tested on my Beike IMX175 sensor camera (also see findings.md in docs for something funny about the sensor)
I don't know ask the random chinese solution design house that made them. "Beike" (贝壳) is Chinese for "Seashell"
- The docs folder in this repo
- https://blog.joshattic.us/posts/2025-12-31-allwinner-v3-action-cameras-happy-new-year
- https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/hacking-q3h-allwinner-v3-camdroid.20507/
- https://github.com/petesimon/allwinner-v3-v3s/tree/master
- https://blog.jonaskoeritz.de/2017/02/21/hacking-the-xpro2-action-camera/
- https://blog.jonaskoeritz.de/2019/09/11/revisiting-cheap-action-cams/
- https://www.hackster.io/news/bootlin-pushes-a-fully-open-v4l2-driver-for-the-allwinner-v3-image-signal-processor-upstream-2a1f1409271e
- https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/09/30/allwinner-v3-isp-driver-open-source-camera-mainline-linux/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5TGXCWoWRg