Getting SMS relay to work with 2 macs

Hey guys,
So I have an iMac (late 2013 running OS 10.10.1) and a Macbook Air. (mid 2013 running OS 10.10.1) I've just noticed that SMS relay (from iPhone 6 running 8.1.1) only wants to work with one of the computers at a time, and on top of that, the devices listed under Text Message Forwarding in settings will have the wrong name.
To try and explain, if I have my iMac set up for SMS relay then in my device options for forwarding I'll have
Quinn's iMac
Quinn's iPad
Nick's Mac
All my devices should be Quinn’s X. However Nick is my first name.
Whereas if I do some jiggery-pokery (signing in and out of iCloud, turn iMessages on and off etc) and set up the MBA first I get this
Quinn's Macbook Air
Quinn's iPad
Nick's Mac
So the correct name for MBA is recognise now, but not the iMac.
It refuses to acknowledge both computers at the same time. The wrong name is always the same and it just switches about depending which computer I set up forwarding on first. And if I try and activate it using the wrong name, nothing happens.
A couple of points which may help to explain this.
The wrong name is my first name and so it's what the device name was originally called when set up, but I change that straight away to just Quinn’s X.
I set up my iMac from a Time Machine back up of my MBA
I think possibly somewhere between the 2 is where it's getting confused. That a) the device names aren't the pre-assigned ones and b) they are set up from the same settings initially.
So my question is this. Has anyone had this problem, and how did they resolve it?
I fear I may have to wipe one of the computers and start over, probably MBA as it’s my secondary computer. Try and rid my settings of what ever it being used to identify both computers. Pain in the arse to do that and would rather not have to so if anyone else has any suggestions let me know
As I said earlier, I've done all the off/on sign out/sign in business with all the devices multiple times and that's doing nothing. Also, I have just noticed, last thing I did was to configure my iMac to be the one to receive SMS relay. Now I’m out of the house with my MBA, my iPhone is showing that as being the computer that is set up and a quick test confirms this.
Man I’m so confused.
Cheers

I have this exact problem now. I can only "pair" my imessage to 1st macbook and 1 iPad. iMessage won't recognize nor sync messages on the second macbook. When I open the imessages screen on the 2nd MBP, the text bubbles are all green indicating I am sending via SMS and not even sending via iMessage (which has blue text bubbles).
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