Custom events with pre- and post-capture?

[vrilcode]

I have a front door camera where I can't work with motion or person detection because there are always people moving around on the street who don't interest me. I know when someone opens the front door via a door contact. I want to record such events. However, the person is already out of the camera's field of vision when I find out about the door opening via the contact. In my use case, I want to record everything from a certain custom event (door opening), but also, for example, 30 seconds before and after. How could I achieve this with Frigate?

I have seen that you can create an event via the HTTP API, but how do I solve the problem with pre- and post-capturing? I haven't found anything in the docs.

[hawkeye217]

Manual events created with the API respect pre and post capture.

In Frigate 0.15 and later, API created events are always alerts, so you just need:

review:
  alerts:
    pre_capture: 5
    post_capture: 5