However, I keep on getting popups about Armory losing it's connection to bitcoind.
(ERROR) Networking.py:359 - ***Connection to Satoshi client LOST! Attempting to reconnect...
I found that "maxconnections=6" in bitcoin.conf was causing bitcoind to reject connections
from Armory on the localhost interface. When I changed it to "maxconnections=30", Armory
started working as expected, and bitcond says it has 9 open connections.
Oh right, there's that too. I personally do it the other way and add "addnode=127.0.0.1" to guarantee Core tries to keep the localhost connection with Armory alive.