Messages are not coming through on both devices.

My question is this: Why am I not receiving messages or FaceTime calls on both my Mac and my iPhone? iOS8 on an iPhone 5 and 10.8.5 on the Mac. I'd love to get this working again. It used to. I have a guess what it is… I'm looking for direction.

Hi,
One gets a message, the other does not.
That was implied in the first post which Eric asked you to clarify.
Technically they are different apps and sometime require different actions to fix them.
In theory you can use different Apple ID in Messages for the iMessages account and FaceTime.
However if you use iMessages on the Mac and want to switch to FaceTime using the Video icon then you may confuse the Contact as the incoming identifying info is likely to be different and they may refuse connection.
Lets presume the Mac gets the iMessages but the iPhone does not.
On the iPhone Settings > Messages and check the iPhone number is ticked as a Send and Receive ID in the Send and Receive part.
Although this should be ticked (once the Messages app in On) and greyed out (the User can't access this) it can sometimes lose the setting (I have seen it twice now and the last time was the General release of Yosemite).
In the case where someone send to the iPhone Number on the sync version will show on the Mac. (it does not transfer to the Apple ID and repeat back to the iPhone that way).
Remove the Apple ID from the iPhone.
Turn the Messages app Off.
Set the iPhone to Airplane mode to break with server.
On "restarting" the iPhone after a few minutes Restart the Messages app.
Wait until it has Verified.
Then send (from the iPhone Number as you have no other choice) to the Apple ID (So the Mac gets it).
Return an iMessages so you know the iPhone is receiving (it will send to the iPhone number in a chat opened this way)
Add back the Apple ID.
Restart the Mac version and accept the pop ups about the info the iPhone is using.
If these is not the issue you will have to be a lot clearer in your info.
(we cannot see over you shoulder to be able to help in this case)
9:15 pm Saturday; October 25, 2014
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