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My iPhone (iOS 8.1) shows two devices named like my MacBookPro in the Messages settings. When trying to activate one of them in order to pair with the MBP, nothing happens on my MBP (Yosemite) in the Messages app where it should show a code. So I think those two devices are ghost entries or otherwise corrupted and that my iPhone is not "seeing" my MBP. Is there a way to delete them or to reset the SMS forwarding service?

There's also this from Apple that outlines the requirements:
Get help using Continuity with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite
Here it indicates that SMS forwarding is supported by any iPhone that can run 8.1 with any Mac that can run Yosemite. Only Instant Hotspot and Handoff seem to have hardware limitations, and SMS is not touted as being part of "Continuity".
I suspect the SMS problem is a setup problem, or maybe a quirk in installation.

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