diff --git a/dispatcharr/settings.py b/dispatcharr/settings.py
index 9b381bfd..ef1f6ec7 100644
--- a/dispatcharr/settings.py
+++ b/dispatcharr/settings.py
@@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'rest_framework',
     'corsheaders',
     'django_filters',
+    'django_celery_beat',
 ]
 
-
-
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
@@ -164,6 +163,10 @@ CELERY_BROKER_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS = {
     'visibility_timeout': 3600,  # Time in seconds that a task remains invisible during retries
 }
 
+CELERY_ACCEPT_CONTENT = ['json']
+CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER = 'json'
+
+CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULER = "django_celery_beat.schedulers.DatabaseScheduler"
 CELERY_BEAT_SCHEDULE = {
     'fetch-channel-statuses': {
         'task': 'apps.proxy.tasks.fetch_channel_stats',