diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 94dcd43..80b3127 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "impls",
  "indexmap 2.2.6",
  "mlua",
- "once_cell",
  "paste",
  "pollster",
  "regex",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a81d72d..5c3ab19 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ mlua = { version = "0.10.1", features = [
   "async",
   "send",
 ] }
-once_cell = "1.19.0"
 hostname = "0.4.0"
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.11", features = ["full"] }
 uuid = "1.8.0"
diff --git a/src/device_manager.rs b/src/device_manager.rs
index 70523d9..789cd79 100644
--- a/src/device_manager.rs
+++ b/src/device_manager.rs
@@ -6,12 +6,10 @@ use futures::future::join_all;
 use futures::Future;
 use tokio::sync::{RwLock, RwLockReadGuard};
 use tokio_cron_scheduler::{Job, JobScheduler};
-use tokio_util::task::LocalPoolHandle;
 use tracing::{debug, instrument, trace};
 
 use crate::devices::Device;
 use crate::event::{Event, EventChannel, OnDarkness, OnMqtt, OnNotification, OnPresence};
-use crate::LUA;
 
 pub type DeviceMap = HashMap<String, Box<dyn Device>>;
 
@@ -142,23 +140,6 @@ impl DeviceManager {
     }
 }
 
-fn run_schedule(
-    uuid: uuid::Uuid,
-    _: tokio_cron_scheduler::JobScheduler,
-) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>> {
-    Box::pin(async move {
-        // Lua is not Send, so we need to make sure that the task stays on the same thread
-        let pool = LocalPoolHandle::new(1);
-        pool.spawn_pinned(move || async move {
-            let lua = LUA.lock().await;
-            let f: mlua::Function = lua.named_registry_value(uuid.to_string().as_str()).unwrap();
-            f.call_async::<()>(()).await.unwrap();
-        })
-        .await
-        .unwrap();
-    })
-}
-
 impl mlua::UserData for DeviceManager {
     fn add_methods<M: mlua::UserDataMethods<Self>>(methods: &mut M) {
         methods.add_async_method("add", |_lua, this, device: Box<dyn Device>| async move {
@@ -171,7 +152,27 @@ impl mlua::UserData for DeviceManager {
             "schedule",
             |lua, this, (schedule, f): (String, mlua::Function)| async move {
                 debug!("schedule = {schedule}");
-                let job = Job::new_async(schedule.as_str(), run_schedule).unwrap();
+                // This creates a function, that returns the actual job we want to run
+                let create_job = {
+                    let lua = lua.clone();
+
+                    move |uuid: uuid::Uuid,
+                          _: tokio_cron_scheduler::JobScheduler|
+                          -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>> {
+                        let lua = lua.clone();
+
+                        // Create the actual function we want to run on a schedule
+                        let future = async move {
+                            let f: mlua::Function =
+                                lua.named_registry_value(uuid.to_string().as_str()).unwrap();
+                            f.call_async::<()>(()).await.unwrap();
+                        };
+
+                        Box::pin(future)
+                    }
+                };
+
+                let job = Job::new_async(schedule.as_str(), create_job).unwrap();
 
                 let uuid = this.scheduler.add(job).await.unwrap();
 
@@ -183,12 +184,6 @@ impl mlua::UserData for DeviceManager {
             },
         );
 
-        // methods.add_async_method("add_schedule", |lua, this, schedule| async {
-        //     let schedule = lua.from_value(schedule)?;
-        //     this.add_schedule(schedule).await;
-        //     Ok(())
-        // });
-
         methods.add_method("event_channel", |_lua, this, ()| Ok(this.event_channel()))
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index b04db7f..3cbd2de 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 #![feature(specialization)]
 #![feature(let_chains)]
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
-use tokio::sync::Mutex;
 pub mod auth;
 pub mod config;
 pub mod device_manager;
@@ -14,5 +12,3 @@ pub mod messages;
 pub mod mqtt;
 pub mod schedule;
 pub mod traits;
-
-pub static LUA: Lazy<Mutex<mlua::Lua>> = Lazy::new(|| Mutex::new(mlua::Lua::new()));
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index deec0fa..24ba0be 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ use anyhow::anyhow;
 use automation::auth::User;
 use automation::config::{FulfillmentConfig, MqttConfig};
 use automation::device_manager::DeviceManager;
+use automation::devices;
 use automation::error::ApiError;
 use automation::mqtt::{self, WrappedAsyncClient};
-use automation::{devices, LUA};
 use axum::extract::{FromRef, State};
 use axum::http::StatusCode;
 use axum::routing::post;
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ async fn app() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     let device_manager = DeviceManager::new().await;
 
     let fulfillment_config = {
-        let lua = LUA.lock().await;
+        let lua = mlua::Lua::new();
 
         lua.set_warning_function(|_lua, text, _cont| {
             warn!("{text}");