diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ab4b458bdfdacc563ceeb297ecd7194bf4a90748..6b27958b1453f52d49e16c4570cc571427dc1006 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
                python3-setuptools,
                python3-sqlalchemy (>= 1.0),
                python3-swh.core,
-               python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.14~),
+               python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.30~),
                python3-swh.storage,
                python3-swh.storage.schemata,
                python3-testing.postgresql,
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Homepage: https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-lister/
 
 Package: python3-swh.lister
 Architecture: all
-Depends: python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.14~),
+Depends: python3-swh.scheduler (>= 0.0.30~),
          ${misc:Depends},
          ${python3:Depends}
 Breaks: python3-swh.lister.github
diff --git a/requirements-swh.txt b/requirements-swh.txt
index c08589da19afa047c255b83c8a3689ee15885223..e4f6ba1122072f8054b77eb1e1ec8a04e62c29aa 100644
--- a/requirements-swh.txt
+++ b/requirements-swh.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 swh.core
 swh.storage[schemata] >= 0.0.76
-swh.scheduler >= 0.0.14
+swh.scheduler >= 0.0.30
diff --git a/swh/lister/core/lister_base.py b/swh/lister/core/lister_base.py
index 6b789f6509e0190b270d4d33a56dbfc7278bec1b..5b371596f61d6f3045f146efb5239a6cba7ddaa2 100644
--- a/swh/lister/core/lister_base.py
+++ b/swh/lister/core/lister_base.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
 
 from swh.core import config
 from swh.scheduler.backend import SchedulerBackend
+from swh.scheduler import get_scheduler
 from swh.storage import get_storage
 
 from .abstractattribute import AbstractAttribute
@@ -214,7 +215,12 @@ class SWHListerBase(abc.ABC, config.SWHConfig):
                 'url': 'http://localhost:5002/'
             },
         }),
-        'scheduling_db': ('str', 'dbname=softwareheritage-scheduler-dev'),
+        'scheduler': ('dict', {
+            'cls': 'remote',
+            'args': {
+                'url': 'http://localhost:5008/'
+            },
+        })
     }
 
     @property
@@ -252,9 +258,7 @@ class SWHListerBase(abc.ABC, config.SWHConfig):
             self.config.update(override_config)
 
         self.storage = get_storage(**self.config['storage'])
-        self.scheduler = SchedulerBackend(
-            scheduling_db=self.config['scheduling_db'],
-        )
+        self.scheduler = get_scheduler(**self.config['scheduler'])
         self.db_engine = create_engine(self.config['lister_db_url'])
         self.mk_session = sessionmaker(bind=self.db_engine)
         self.db_session = self.mk_session()
diff --git a/swh/lister/core/tests/test_lister.py b/swh/lister/core/tests/test_lister.py
index d20ecd01cb2889af0befc744359b9a3698ecc413..b2e28cd77dc42071294c3a93ce2e2145ebf1ac40 100644
--- a/swh/lister/core/tests/test_lister.py
+++ b/swh/lister/core/tests/test_lister.py
@@ -106,12 +106,9 @@ class HttpListerTesterBase(abc.ABC):
 
         """
         if override_config or self.fl is None:
-            with patch(
-                'swh.scheduler.backend.SchedulerBackend.reconnect', noop
-            ):
-                self.fl = self.Lister(api_baseurl='https://fakeurl',
-                                      override_config=override_config)
-                self.fl.INITIAL_BACKOFF = 1
+            self.fl = self.Lister(api_baseurl='https://fakeurl',
+                                  override_config=override_config)
+            self.fl.INITIAL_BACKOFF = 1
 
         self.fl.reset_backoff()
         return self.fl