Continuity, Handoff, Instant Hotspot and iMessage stop working

2013 iMac with 10.10.2
   - Beginning two days ago, I think..(maybe coincidental with update to 10.10.2, but I thought things were working fine following) iMessage stopped syncing with other OS X and iOS devices on the same iCloud account. All on the same network.
     - Instant Hotspot, Continuity and Handoff also do not work on the iMac...(worked great a couple days ago)
     - iMac is primary ethernet, but wifi is on also.
     - I have cycled power, turned on and off wifi, turned on and off handoff settings, turned on and off iMessage, cycled iMessage "enable account", logged out of iCloud, logged out of iMessage (on all devices). When I turn on iMessage on the iMac - I do not get any notice on any other device that I have done so, like I do with all the other devices.
     - I did get notice on the other devices when I turned iCloud back on and wanted my keychain restored.
     - MPB is also updated to 10.10.2 and no issues. All features work.
     - iPhone and iPad are at iOS 8.1.3
     - iPhone only sees MBP and iPad for "text forwarding"
When I send an iMessage on any of the three (MBP, iPad, iPhone) they each sync nicely. No message received on iMac. Before I realized I was having problems with the iMac I did see that more messages were going out as "text". Also, when attempting to send to know iMessage account holders I was not getting the blue, rather the red highlight on the names and the "not registered with iMessage" notice.
I am tempted to just do a Time Machine restore back to a few days ago, but I would like to know if there is something else I should do first. Seems a bit heavy handed to do that.
Thanks
Dave

They're going to treat every case individually. While perhaps similar in nature, they will have to run through the same diagnostics with every new case the same way. I have an applecare contract, and I started with online chat support for OSX issues. Got the first level person pretty quickly who guided me through a bunch of diagnostic steps. At the end of that session, when things were still not working, she set me up for a support callback from Level 2. Call came in at the scheduled time less than an hour later, I got hooked up with a rep named Tyler, who had the ability to look at the devices registered under my apple id. He said it was strange that he didn't see my macbook pro listed, though he saw my other products. He said it would have to go to engineering. Sent me instructions to prepare a dump file and email it to apple support, which I completed right away. The next day, around mid-morning, my devices were getting the apple id popup message. Tried imessage on the MBP and it worked. Emailed Tyler that imessage appeared to be working, he replied, and it was done. I was surprised that I didn't receive any sort of follow up that my issue had been worked and resolved, but I was very pleased with the experience with apple support. For anyone who doesn't have an active applecare contract, I believe apple will handle Apple ID related issues for free, so that would be the path to follow. I'm wondering if I started through support as an Apple ID issue instead of as an OSX issue, maybe it would have resolved more quickly.

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