text: """Helpers for amcrest component."""
  from .const import DOMAIN
  
  
  def service_signal(service, ident=None):
      """Encode service and identifier into signal."""
      signal = f"{DOMAIN}_{service}"
      if ident:
          signal += f"_{ident.replace('.', '_')}"
      return signal
  
  
  def log_update_error(logger, action, name, entity_type, error):
      """Log an update error."""
      logger.error(
          "Could not %s %s %s due to error: %s",
          action,
          name,
          entity_type,
          error.__class__.__name__,
      )
  