SMS messages won't send from my Macbook Air

I installed yosemite and am enjoying all the great perks except for one. I am unable to send SMS messages from my computer. Everything is one the same Apple ID but it doesn't work. I can make calls but can't send SMS messages. Please help!

ALso another gotcha mentioned by Jason Snell at Six Colours
"I couldn’t get this feature to work until I discovered that there’s a setting on the iPhone—“iPhone Cellular Calls” in the FaceTime settings menu—that had to be switched on before I could use it. That’s a weird place for that feature to live, in my opinion—why not in the Phone settings?—and a weird name for it, too. (On the Mac side, you can toggle this feature off in the FaceTime app.)"

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Whilst the ID is truned Off in Messages beta (And the app is Quit)
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As this app starts up when the computer does restart the computer to get the .plist to be rewritten from defaults.
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