Hangouts - Contacts topic

I use to be able to hit the text icon on a contact, and it would go to Hangouts. Now I get a message: "to send an sms with Hangouts, turn on sms in settings" I don't think there is a setting for that on a 2012 n7. Anyone else with that issue? I'm on Purity ROM, 5.02.

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